Top 10 Carbon Capturing and Gas Recycling startups in USA

Oct 27, 2024 | By Marjana Bačić

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Funding: $26M
NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and oils for aquaculture and beyond.
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Funding: $32.5M
Mantel proposes a method to trap CO2 before it enters the atmosphere.
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Funding: $30M
Graphyte utilizes carbon dioxide removal solution that is permanent, affordable, and immediately scalable.
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Funding: $199.4M
Twelve is a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era. We make essential products from air, not oil.
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Funding: $116M
Avnos is commercializing technology to capture CO2 without consuming water, producing water for every ton.
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Funding: $105M
Solidia Technologies is a tech firm that makes it profitable to use CO₂ for manufacturing construction and industrial products.
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Funding: $54.3M
Heirloom Carbon develops technology called carbon mineralization, to help minerals absorb CO2 from the ambient air in days, rather than years. By combining the best of engineering and nature, we can offer the most cost-effective and scalable Direct Air Capture solution in the world.
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Funding: $54.3M
Ocean carbon removal startup Running Tide crafts adaptive aquaculture techniques to optimize nature while amplifying flavor and health.
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Funding: $48.7M
Dimensional Energy transforms carbon dioxide into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and valuable consumer products with the lowest energy input per barrel installed.
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Funding: $39.1M
Air Company turns carbon dioxide into things like perfume, vodka, hand sanitizer and aviation fuel
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Funding: $34.5M
Captura is a carbon capture system to support a sustainable future for the climate.
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Funding: $23M
Ebb Carbon works on a reverse electrochemical ocean deacidification process that captures CO2 from the atmosphere.
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Funding: $14.1M
Osmoses engages in decarbonizing gas separations to eliminate one gigaton of carbon emissions per year.
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Funding: $11.5M
Cemvita Factory has developed biomimicking technologies and custom-engineered microorganisms that catalyze the conversion of CO2 at ambient pressure and temperature
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Funding: $11.6M
By engineering a new way to use CO2, and store energy, OCOchem’s technology helps solve the dual challenges of carbon emissions and large-scale zero-carbon energy storage for customers interested in reducing their carbon footprint, energy storage costs, or both.
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Funding: $12M
Eion removes atmospheric CO2, permanently and verifiably, with enhanced rock weathering on soil
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Funding: $12.2M
Noya is reversing climate change and pulling CO2 out of the sky by retrofitting existing pieces of equipment to capture carbon.
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Funding: $11M
Spiritus is a climate tech company developing direct-air-capture technology.
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Funding: $10M
CarbonBuilt enables concrete manufacturing to drive greenhouse gas reductions through the utilization of CO2 and other industrial wastes.
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Funding: $9.3M
Blue Planet uses it’s patented Liquid Condensed Phase Technology to convert CO2 into high-value CarbonMix building and highway materials.
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Funding: $8.4M
Banyu Carbon focuses on developing a novel photocatalytic approach to marine carbon dioxide removal.
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Funding: $6.9M
AirMyne is scaling high-quality carbon removal through Direct Air Capture.
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Funding: $6.8M
Clairity Technology is a climate startup that creates low-cost, scalable technology to harvest carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Funding: $4.1M
Renewell Energy created a mechatronic conversion system called Artemis Prime as an energy storage solution. This "fancy regenerative winch" aims to take inactive oil and gas wells that leak pollutants and use them for energy storage.
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Funding: $3M
Holy Grail uses electrons to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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Funding: $1.4M
Mango Materials produces a naturally occurring biopolymer from waste biogas (methane) that are economically competitive with conventional oil-based plastics.
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Funding: $85K
Carba is a clean-energy firm that is creating a reactor that transforms carbon dioxide into charcoal.
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Lillianah Technologies, based in the Houston area in Spring, uses algae to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The company sells carbon offsets to corporations.
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Ionada develops, manufactures, and markets post combustion carbon capture systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Arbon is revolutionizing carbon removal industry with Humidity-Swing-DAC technology.
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Capwell Services is a hard tech, climate focused company.
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Mitico offers accessible carbon capture technology and services to mitigate the impact of industrial emissions on people and the climate:
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Ardent pioneers advanced membrane technologies to accelerate decarbonization and transform the global industrial and energy landscape.
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Aquarry uses mine pit lakes to capture and store carbon dioxide. Scalable, permanent, low cost carbon removal in a single step.
Editor: Marjana Bačić
Marjana Bačić is a senior editor for RecyclingStartups. She has has more than 5 years experience covering the recycling industry. Marjana graduated from University of Belgrade, where she edited Recycling and Sustainable Development Journal. She has helped several non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting environmental education and sustainability. She also participates in beach clean-up initiatives and advocates for sustainable practices in local businesses. In her free time, Marjana enjoys hiking in the scenic Montenegrin countryside, practicing yoga for mindfulness, and experimenting with plant-based recipes in her kitchen. You can contact Marjana at marjanabacic(at)recyclingstartups(dot)com